dancing
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Dance, Dance, Dance
From pre-historic to primitive, to modern, to contemporary, and back to povera, with elegance, seduction, tribalism, or spiritualism, dance seems to be a global, perhaps universal phenomenon serving as celebration of joy or pain, to free or incarcerate body or soul. During my continuing search for causes for celebration, I came across this obscure moment…
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The Life You Give: Sammy Davis, Jr. *1925
Sammy Davis, Jr., born December 8, 1925 in New York, New York, was a singer, dancer, and entertainer. At age three Davis began performing in vaudeville with his father and uncle, Will Mastin, in the Will Mastin Trio. Davis studied tap dancing under Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson but never received a formal education. After serving in…
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